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Transcontinental to California Eastern in
January 1960 and then leased to a US airline.
Among California Eastern's subsidiary com
panies is Air Carrier Service Corp, which is
engaged in the marketing abroad of American
aeronautical products and aircraft. This
corporation negotiated the sale of three
Convair 880s for Japan Air Lines, and six
Convair 600s for Latin American carriers; it
is also responsible for overseas marketing of
the Aero Commander, CL-44, Hiller UH-12E,
Vertol 44 and 107.
Head Office: 1510 H Street NW, Washington
5, DC, USA.
Executives: Jorge Carnicero, chairman of the
board; M. T. Dyke, president.
Employees: 2,500.
Fleet: four L.1049H leased to US carriers,
one DC-4.
Camba Airlines. Little is known of this
Bolivian carrier. A Curtiss C-46 operating
under this name crashed near San Borja,
Bolivia, on September 12 last year.
Campling Bros & Vanderwal Ltd is the largest
operator of charter and non-scheduled services
in British East Africa. CBV undertakes
flying training, maintenance and overhaul
work and acts as agents for Cessna aircraft,
while CBV's subsidiary, Caspair, operates
scheduled services. CBV operates a total of
22 aircraft, of which those listed below are
used for charter work.
Head Office: PO Box 1951, Nairobi, Kenya.
Executives: L. K. Campling. F. K. Campling.
H. Vanderwal. Z. Boskovic, directors.
Fleet: two Macchi MB.320, one Aero Com
mander 500A. one Bonanza, one Comanche.
Cessnas.
Canadian Pacific Air Lines—CPAL was
formed in 1942 by the Canadian Pacific
Railway to acquire ten of Canada's "bush"'
airlines, best known of which was Canadian
Airways. CPAL operated a network of
services in west and northwest Canada, a
smaller network in the Winnipeg area and a
third system in Quebec. These were part of
the overall CPR system that included railways
and ships. In 1949 the company opened two
trans-Pacific routes, the first which now links
Vancouver to Sydney via Honolulu, Fiji
and Auckland, and the second linking Van
couver to Tokyo and Hong Kong via Cold
Bay in the Aleutian Islands. In 1953 CPAL
inaugurated services from Vancouver to
Mexico City and Lima, and this route has
since been extended to Santiago and Buenos
Aires. In 1955 a trans-Polar route was
opened between Vancouver and Amsterdam,
and a traffic stop was later added at Edmonton.
In 1957 a transatlantic route was opened to
Madrid and Lisbon and a Mexico City -
Toronto-Montreal-Lisbon-Rome service was
started on March 1, 1960. CPAL's main
trunk routes now extend from Sydney and
Auckland to Amsterdam via Fiji. Honolulu
and Vancouver, and from Buenos Aires to
Hong Kong via Santiago. Lima. Mexico
City, Vancouver and Tokyo. Within Canada,
CPAL operates from Vancouver as far as
Edmonton and Dawson City, and a daily
Britannia service was inaugurated on May 4,
1960 over the Vancouver - Winnipeg - Toronto
Montreal route. DC-8 "Jet Empress'" services
were inaugurated over the Vancouver - Amster
dam and Rome routes on May 31, 1961, and
DC-8s now fly the transcontinental Vancouver-
Montreal route.
Head Office: Vancouver Airport, BC. Canada.
Executives: G. W. G. McConachie, president;
H. B. Renwick, vice-president sales and traffic;
R. B. Phillips, vice-president operations; J. C.
Gilmer, comptroller.
Employees: 2,552.
Fleet: four DC-8 series 40. six Britannia 314,
four DC-6B, three DC-6A, five Convair 240.
two C-46, three DC-3.
Capital Airlines Inc had a history going back
to April 1927 when Skyline Transportation Co
began flying mail between Pittsburgh and
Cleveland. The following year Skyline was
taken over by Pennsylvania Airlines and
passenger services were begun. In 1936
Pennsylvania Airlines and Central Airlines
(then flying Detroit - Washington mail ser
vices) merged to form Pennsylvania-Central
Airlines. The present name was adopted in
1948. Capital pioneered coach-class services
and was the first US airline to introduce
turbine-powered aircraft. The network
covered the eastern, north-eastern and south
ern states from Minneapolis/St Paul in the
west to New York, and as far south as Miami.
To avoid threatened foreclosure by Vickers as
a result of the airline's Viscounts debts, which
would have meant seeking voluntary bank
ruptcy. Capital merged with United. The
merger took effect on June 1. 1961. following
CAB approval given on April 4. 1961.
Capitol Airways Inc is one of the largest US
non-scheduled and supplemental carriers, and
has engaged in international and domestic
charter flying for ten years. A good deal of
transatlantic group charter work is under
taken. C-46s operate domestic charter flights
and a daily service under Logair contract to
no less than 71 USAF bases within the States,
flying 338,000 ton-miles daily on Logair work.
Head Office: Berry Field, Nashville, Ten
nessee, USA.
Executives: J. F. Stallings, president: William
B. Leonard, vice-president sales.
Employees: 750.
Fleet: five L.1049 (three leased from Lock
heed), one L.749. one DC-4, 43 C-46, seven
Beech D-18S, one Bell 47G-2. Twin Bonanza.
Bonanza.
Caribbean-Atlantic Airlines Inc—Caribair was
founded in 1939. and in June that year took
over the operations of its predecessor, Powel-
son Air Service, which had started scheduled
services late in 1938. The company now oper
ates services within Puerto Rico and to the
Dominican Republic and the Virgin Islands.
Trans-Caribbean Airways has acquired a
16 per cent holding in Caribair; the Trigo
family has a 51.12 per cent share and Laurence
Rockefeller interests 20 per cent.
Head Office: Box 6035. Santurce. San Juan.
Puerto Rico.
Executives: D. Trigo. president; J. Sierra, vice-
president operations: B. Trigo. vice-president.
Fleet: five DC-3.
Caspair Ltd, a subsidiary of Campling Bros &
Vanderwal. has for several years been operat
ing scheduled services round Lake Victoria
in association with East African Airways.
Services are now operated from Entebbe to
Bukoba. Geita. Mwanza and Ukcrewe.
Head Office: Box 2238. Nairobi. Kenya.
Executives: L. K. Campling. H. K. Campling.
H. Vanderwal, directors; C. H. Bramich.
secretary.
Employees: 26.
Fleet: five DH.89 Rapide 4. one Cessna 182,
one Piper Cub.
Catalina Channel Airways is a US intra-state
carrier operating within California.
Head Office: Long Beach. California.
Executives: Robert J. Hanley. president;
Gaylord E. Farquart. vice-president; George
O. White, secretary/treasurer.
Employees: 20.
Fleet: five Grumman Goose.
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd—CPA was
founded in 1946, and started operations
between Manila and Hong Kong using DC-3s.
It was re-registered as a Hong Kong company
on October 18, 1948. when it was bought by
John Swire & Sons Ltd and the China Naviga
tion Co Ltd (two-thirds) and Australian
National Airways. The original owners re
tained a 20 per cent interest in Cathay Pacific.
which was bought out in 1950 by the other
interests. In 1954 a further issue of shares
was taken up by John Swire, the China Navi
gation Co and the P. & O. Steam Navigation
Co Ltd. In 1956 the Borneo Co Ltd also
became shareholders and on July 1, 1959,
Cathay Pacific merged with Hong Kong Air
ways Ltd and at this time BOAC and Jardine,
Matheson & Co Ltd became shareholders.
Cathay Holdings Ltd holds 84.5 per cent of
the total shares of CPA, and shares in Cathay
Holdings are held by Butterfield & Swire, the
China Navigation Co. Ansett Transport
Industries, P. & O. and the Borneo Co. Of
the remaining shares in CPA, BOAC Associ
ated Companies Ltd holds 15 per cent and
Jardine, Matheson 0.5 per cent.
Convair 880 services linking Hong Kong to
Manila, Taipei, Osaka, Tokyo. Bangkok and
Singapore began on April 8, 1962. Electras and
the DC-6B link Hong Kong with Seoul,
Taipei and Manila, and fly southwest to Singa
pore. Djakarta. Rangoon and Calcutta via
Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, as well as to
Pnom-Penh, Saigon. Vientiane, Jesselton
(North Borneo) and Brunei.
Head Office: 9 Connaught Road, Hong Kong.
Executives: W. C. G. Knowles, chairman;
J. H. Brembridge, managing director; D. R. Y.
Bluck, commercial manager; Capt K. W.
Steele, operations manager; J. T. Gething,
engineering director.
Fleet: one Convair 880 Model 22M. two
Electra. one DC-6B. one DC-6. one DC-4.
Cayman Brae Airways Ltd operates over a
98-mile route between Grand Cayman Island
(south of Cuba and west of Jamaica) and
Cayman Brae.
Head Office: Grand Cayman. British West
Indies.
Fleet: One Beechcraft C-45 G.
Central African Airways Corporation—CAA
was formed in 1946 by the Governments of
Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasa-
land. CAA succeeded the wartime Southern
Rhodesia Air Services and the pre-war
Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways Ltd which
commenced operations in 1933. CAA operates
both domestic and regional services, the latter
calling at Elisabethville, Mbeya. Durban,
Nairobi. Dar-es-Salaam, Johannesburg. Lour-
enco Marques and Beira. There is also the
"Rhodesian Comet" service to London
operated for CAA by BOAC. Three BAC
One-Elevens may be ordered Tor regional
services.
Head Office: Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia.
Executives: R. M. Taylor, chairman; M.
Stuart-Shaw, general manager; R. P. Hartley,
assistant general manager; G. C. Draper,
commercial manager: K. H. Greager, engin
eering manager; Capt M. O'Donovan, opera
tions manager; W. B. James, chief accountant;
W. L. Stedman, planning manager.
Employees: 1.192.
Fleet: four Viscount 748, one Viscount 754,
six DC-3. six Beaver.
Central Airlines Inc was established as an
intra-state operator in Oklahoma in 1944. The
company's first inter-state operations were
authorized in 1946 and operations, with Beech
Bonanzas, were inaugurated in September
1949. DC-3 operations began in 1950 and all
Bonanzas were withdrawn during the follow
ing year. At present the airline serves Texas,
Oklahoma. Arkansas, Kansas. Missouri and
Colorado. Three ex-American Airlines Con
vair 240s have been added to the fleet.
A Douglas DC-6B operated by Ethiopia's national airline